اِسقِني وَاِسقِ يوسُفا

مُزَّةَ الطَعمِ قَرقَفا

Give me a drink, and give Joseph a drink

Pour drink for me, and give Yusuf his share,

The most delightful flavor of licorice

A biting wine that makes the senses quake.

دَع مِنَ العَيشِ كُلَّ رَن

قٍ وَخُذ مِنهُ ما صَفا

Leave all bitter life

Leave all of life's muddy troubles behind,

And take from it what is pure

And take from it only what runs clear.

اِسقِنيها مِلءً وَفا

لا أُريدُ المُنَصَّفا

Give it to me full and overflowing

Pour it for me full, a brimming measure,

I do not want only half

I will not accept a diluted cup.

وَضَعِ الزِقَّ جانِباً

وَمَعَ الزِقِّ مُصحَفا

Put the Quran aside

Set the wineskin down by my side,

With the Quran put a codex

And beside the wineskin, lay the Quran.

وَاِحسُ مِن ذا ثَلاثَةً

وَاِتلُ مِن ذاكَ أَحرُفا

And feel from this three

Drink three draughts from the first,

And recite from that letters

And recite a few verses from the second.

خَيرُ هَذا بِشَرِّ ذا

فَإِذا اللَهُ قَد عَفا

This is better with the evil of that

The good of this one against the evil of that,

When Allah has pardoned indeed

So that if God should grant forgiveness,

فَلَقَد فازَ مَن مَحا

ذا بِذا عَنهُ وَاِكتَفى

So he has succeeded who erased

He has truly won who erases

This with that from him and sufficed

This with that, and is content.